ROY ANDERSSON

Roy Anderson's unique directorial vision crystallizes in another creation of unique aesthetic beauty and bittersweet surrealism, which rightly earned the great Swedish director the Silver Lion for Best Director at the 2019 Venice Film Festival. — In a dreamy atmosphere and guided by a narrator reminiscent of Scheherazade from "A Thousand and One Nights", a series of vignettes compose a cinematic meditation on endings and mortality. — Best Director | Venice Film Festival | 2019

Bergman and Tati find a common language in the former's homeland, thanks to Roy Anderson's inventive film in which the absurdity of everyday life meets the concerns of a society moving forward without a moral compass. One of the masterpieces of the 00s, first part of an informal trilogy. — At some unspecified time between the 1950s and today, somewhere in the northern hemisphere, things are not going well at all: A magician makes a tragic mistake and saws a man in half, a lost immigrant is beaten up in a busy street, an employee is fired after being humiliated for no apparent reason, and there's a traffic jam. — Jury Prize | Cannes Film Festival | 2000

Roy Andersson's masterpiece, awarded with a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, takes us into the Swedish director's unique world, on an existential journey of life and death while showing us the humorous and simultaneously tragic nature of our own existence. — Three encounters with death: a man dies of a heart attack while trying to open a bottle of wine. An elderly woman holds a bag full of jewels on her deathbed. A traveler lies dead in the ferry's café after just paying for his meal. At the same time, like the modern Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, a pair of hapless novelty salesmen trading unusual "toys", take us on a kaleidoscopic wanderlust of human destiny. — Golden Lion | Venice Film Festival | 2014

This is where Roy Anderson's cinematic universe is born. In his 1970 debut, the surrealist auteur, influenced by the Czech New Wave, tells the love story of two teenagers and the reaction of the people around them. Multi-award-winning and a must-see for any fan of the director. — Two teenagers meet and reluctantly fall in love in a beautiful setting during an idyllic Swedish summer. Ignoring social confines, they innocently create their own environment in contrast to the distorted relationships, frustration and fatigue of adult life around them. — Interfilm Award | Berlin Film Festival | 1970 Journalists' Award | Berlin Film Festival | 1970

Roy Anderson's fourth film brings his tableaux vivants back to the screen, addressing the human being, his greatness and his baseness, his joy and his sorrow, his confidence and his anxiety. A tragic comedy or is it a comic tragedy about ourselves? — In the Swedish city named Oblivion, people from different walks of life participate in a series of short vignettes that hurry past us. Some last only seconds, no more than a few minutes. A young woman recalls an imaginary honeymoon with a rock guitarist. A man wakes up from a dream. A businessman brags about success while being robbed by a pickpocket. The absurd collection is accompanied by jazz music. — Official Selection - Un Certain Regard | Cannes Film Festival | 2007